Golden Gate Capital no longer has pasta on its plate, after the private equity firm sold Romano’s Macaroni Grill to Ignite Restaurant Group, Ken Sweet reports. Ignite is the publicly traded owner of the Brick House Tavern + Tap and Joe’s Crab Shack chains, so this deal spells a recipe for a tasty seafood alfredo.

And Bacchus Capital Management probably has a nice pinot gris to go with that. The wine-focused firm made a follow-on equity investment in Wine by Joe, Amy Or reports for LBO Wire. Bacchus provided debt financing to the Oregon wine producer in September 2011. Click here to read the full story (subscription required).

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Elsewhere on the Web:

The $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal for Dell doesn’t signal a return of the megadeals seen before the financial crisis, Ryan Dezember reports for The Wall Street Journal.

Blackstone Group is turning its attention to investment banking to diversify its revenue streams, according to Forbes.